Managing Performance and Cost Information Benefiting from Existing Experience and Tools Frank Zschoche civity Management Consultants Asset Management Seminar Daejeon, October 7th, 2011
Agenda Why benchmarking? Lasting Infrastructure Cost Benchmarking High Speed Benchmarking 2
Western Europe's annual spend on existing networks is around Euro 16 bn Peer group Annual totals 225,000 main track-km 2,600 million passenger train-km 640 million freight train-km Euro 7,500 million maintenance Euro 8,000 million renewal 3
In Europe we face an ongoing debate about the value created by these budgets Railway performance Funding What value for money? More userfinanced? Trade-offs Efficiency Quality Do we do things right? Continuous improvement Right level of quality? Punctuality as key indicator 4
These demands lead to a number of strategic objectives for most railways Strategic objectives Finance Provide a self-sustainable railway Reliability Ensure an appropriate level of reliability of technology in use Safety Provide a safe transport service and environment Utilisation Best exploit the capacity of existing assets Quality Deliver on-time and high quality transport services Staff Create a safe and motivating working environment 120 105 90 75 60 45 30 15 0 200 175 150 125 100 75 50 25 0 Efficiency Improve productivity Environment Produce environmentally friendly, low emission services 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2008 5
Today's market structures result in complext contractual relationships between players Relations between parties Government Infrastructure Provider Operator Investments Maintenance Rolling Stock Operations Clients (passengers and freight) 6
Indicators are needed to measure the achievement of objectives and contractual performance Indicators Finance Safety Service quality Efficiency Asset utilisation Reliability Revenue-tocost ratio Accidents Punctuality Passenger per train kilometre Kilometre per railcar MTBF 1) of assets Cost per kilometre Derailments Travel speed Personnel hour per train km Operating time per rail car MDBF 1) of rolling stock Revenue per kilometre Natural catastrophies Train frequencies Operating time per employee Train km per route kilometre Age of assets Cleanliness Maintenance reserve 7
In partially monopolistic and regulated markets benchmarking has been an appropriate means to Benchmarking Show own position in an international context Identify trends over time Promote critical questioning Regularly monitor results Provide a basis for target setting Have a basis for negotiation and funding Launch initial steps for improvement 8
Agenda Why benchmarking? Lasting Infrastructure Cost Benchmarking High Speed Benchmarking 9
LICB is benchmarking very different European railway networks for more than 15 years Network characteristics 9.700 train-km / track-km 94 % single track 0,3 switches / track-km 63 % electrified track 34.400 train-km / track-km 41 % single track 1,1 switches / track-km 100 % electrified track Source: LICB, year 2009 10
After accounting for structural differences the comparison provokes further questions Annual maintenance and renewal expenditures, fully normalised EUR 1.000 / main track-km Activity 200 Gap levels 150 Efficiency gap 100 Average 76,6 50 0 Renewal Maintenance Average Source: LICB, year 2009 11
A gap analysis can support the identification of root causes Root causes EXAMPLE Activity level Efficiency Backlog Maintenance regime Quality Labour cost Procurement Activity planning Possessions Total expenditure gap Remaining gap Residual gap 12
LICB is facing three major developments one is its regional expansion Peer group Currently 15 Western European railways Extension to Central Eastern Europe Further expansion possible and welcome 13
The scope of LICB is going to be extended by performance related indicators Scope Cost per track-km 120 100 80 60 40 20 Today: Network characteristics Utilisation Cost Future: Quality Safety 0 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 Failures per track-km 14
Recently a web-based application has been introduced LICBweb Web-based application All data stored at UIC Administration by UIC Easy data entry and processing Flexible benchmarking algorithms Standard reporting and data export Regional benchmarking 15
Agenda Why benchmarking? Lasting Infrastructure Cost Benchmarking High Speed Benchmarking 16
UIC started an international high speed benchmarking Background Survey on KPIs used in High Speed Initiated by the High Speed Committee of UIC Focus on three key questions: What is measured? What KPIs are used to measure? Which KPIs could be useful for an international benchmarking? Input from 7 Asian and European railways Covers train operators and infrastructure managers 17
Phase 2 has just begun Approach Phase 1 Set-up 2 Data collection 3 Evaluation Commitment of participants Survey Agreement on KPIs Definition of KPIs Comparability/ methodology Development of data template Collection of data from peers Validation and quality assurance Normalisation Analyses and feedback Reporting & presentation 18
According to our survey focus is on quality, finance and reliability Survey Points 36 10 6 20 28 26 24 8 23 10 8 9 9 4 5 2 11 12 11 12 18 6 4 8 16 6 1 9 12 5 0 7 Quality Finance Reliability Efficiency Safety Staff Utilisation Environment Integrated railway: TCDD, EJR Infrastructure manager: ADIF, RFI, Infrabel Train operator: VR, Trenitalia, Korail 19
The benchmarking will produce a number of key performance indicators Indicators Finance Quality Reliability Cost / train-km Cost / track-km Farebox revenues / train-km Average travel speed Services cancelled Punctuality Failures / train-km Failures / track-km Temporary speed restrictions Basic Data Length of lines Fixed assets Trains / train-sets Utilisation Train-km / track-km Passengers / train-km 20
LICB is a very good basis for future international benchmarking activities Resumé The debate about cost and performance is challenging most European infrastructure managers to provide more "value for money" Comprehensive sets of strategic objectives and contractual relationships in the industry require measurements to demonstrate progress Benchmarking has proven to be a useful concept to create transparency about the individual position of an infrastructure manager Using it as a starting point it has provoked further investigation and led to numerous opportunities LICB is a well established approach to compare infrastructure cost throughout Europe and is open to be extended The high speed benchmarking is UIC's latest initiative to apply a similar approach to the high speed sector 21
Thank you for your kind attention Frank Zschoche civity Management Consultants 22